What is your favorite Mythos / H P Lovecraft story and why?

[BAYLOR]

"The Rats in the Walls" is my favourite. There's something terrifying about literally burrowing deeper and deeper down to uncover a secret best left untouched.... OK, the secret itself is pretty standard Lovecraft, but the journey is exceptionally good.

I can't remember the title, but there's a Brian Lumley story that's always stuck with me. It's about a Yorkshireman who discovers he's got the Innsmouth look. So, with characteristic Yorkshire common sense, he sets off to meet his future neighbours!

Lumley's first Titus Crow book is quite good.

He also did a 4 book series set in the Kadath, it wasn't bad , wasn't great.

 

[Ningauble]

I can't remember the title, but there's a Brian Lumley story that's always stuck with me. It's about a Yorkshireman who discovers he's got the Innsmouth look. So, with characteristic Yorkshire common sense, he sets off to meet his future neighbours!

"Beneath the Moors"?
In general, Lumley's stories are better than his Mythos novels.

 

[BAYLOR]

I'd go for either "The Whisperer in Darkness" or "The Shadow over Innsmouth".

The two things I like best about Whisperer are the unreliable narrator and the sense of mounting danger. The idea of a narrator who puts the story together second-hand through recordings and letters is quite modern. The overheard recording is really effective.

Innsmouth really interests me because it hints at so much. Is there a department of the FBI that deals with the paranormal? What terrible things happen in the camps and prisons where the Deep Ones were taken? What will happen now the Navy has torpedoed a Deep One city? Also, I really like the escape from the hotel. Apparently Lovecraft didn't like the action elements, but I think they work well.

Both stories have quite an intimate, small-scale feel of one guy fighting people-sized monsters, which I find much scarier than the vague threat of Cthulhu or the like. I've thought in the past that Lovecraft tended to tell the same story over and over again, but I like the variations he brings in Innsmouth and Whisperer.

Also, I've got to mention "The Picture in the House", which isn't his best, but has this unpleasant pornographic quality that feels weirdly prescient. Not exactly "radicalised by the internet" but the concept isn't a million miles away...

The Quatermass tv serials and filmed could fit into the Lovecratain Universe in particular, Quatermass and the Pit

 

[Vladd67]

The Quatermass tv serials and filmed could fit into the Lovecratain Universe in particular, Quatermass and the Pit

I'm working Quatermass and the Pit in with Dr Who"s The Daemons for a Coc adventure.

 

[StilLearning]

I'm working Quatermass and the Pit in with Dr Who"s The Daemons for a Coc adventure.

Oddly enough (maybe not oddly, or surprisingly really, considering the length of its run) Dr Who's extended universe has crossovers with / elements of Lovecraft's Mythos, E.G: Cthulhu

 

[GeorgeL]

I fell in love with ''The Outsider'' when i red the last line of the story, because the revelation/reaization, made me fell in love with the technique that Lovecraft used in this story.
An unknown narrator, who in the end we learn is the protagonist of the story he narrates.
Because he is relatable (for me at least), of the nature of his existence and the whole Gothic Horror feel of the story, ''The outsider'' was terrifying to me, and not in a gory/disgusting way.
Very interesting story indeed.
I have red countless short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, but this one certaintly left a mark on me as a reader.

 

[Randy M.]

Welcome to the Chrons, GeorgeL.

 

[StilLearning]

Nice to have you here GeorgeL